Perez-Gomez, Alberto <br/><br/>
Architecture and the crisis of modern science / 
Alberto Perez-Gomez 
 - Cambridge :  MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press,  1983. 
 - x, 400 p. 
<br/><br/>Introduction : architecture and the crisis of modern science -- Number and Architectural proportion in the Seventeenth and eighteenth Centuries--  Claude Perrault and the instrumentalization of proportion -- Systems of proportion and natural science --Geometry and Architecture meaning in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries-- Geometrical operations as a source of meaning -- Symbolic geometry in French architecture in the late eighteenth century -- Geometry and number as technical instruments in early modern architecture--  Perspective, gardening, and architectural education -- Fortification, mensuration, and stereotomy -- Statics and strength of materials -- Geometry, number and Technology-- Positivism, descriptive geometry, and scientific building -- Durand and functionalism. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780262660556 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AR<br/>Architecture --Philosophy--History<br/>Architecture--Theories --1625-1850<br/>Architecture--Philosophy
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.1  / PER-A